Spain S Road To Empire
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Spain S Road To Empire
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Author : Henry Kamen
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2003-07-03
Spain S Road To Empire written by Henry Kamen and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-03 with History categories.
How did a barren, thinly populated country, somewhat isolated from the rest of Europe become the world's first superpower? Henry Kamen's tremendous new book takes full advantage of its great theme to recreate the dazzling world of militant Castile from the fall of Moorish Granada and Columbus' first voyage to the imperial collapse over three centuries later. There is no better account in English of this immense, brutal adventure - a ceaseless quest for land, gold and slaves that made Spain, both for its conquered peoples and much of the rest of Europe, into a rapacious nightmare.
Spain 1469 1714
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Author : Henry Kamen
language : en
Publisher: Pearson Education
Release Date : 2005
Spain 1469 1714 written by Henry Kamen and has been published by Pearson Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Spain categories.
This volume shows how Spain achieved world power in the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries by examining crucial political events and foreign policy during the reigns of each of the nation's rulers, from Ferdinand and Isabella at the end of the15th century to Philip V at the beginning of the 18th century.
America S Road To Empire
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Author : Howard Wayne Morgan
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 1965
America S Road To Empire written by Howard Wayne Morgan and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with History categories.
Popular belief has it that the US went to war with Spain for specious reasons and that, except for the hysteria engendered by the "Yellow Press," the Cuban problem could have been settled peacefully. Professor Morgan argues that the administrations of Cleveland and McKinley pursued a logical course aimed at removing Spain from Cuba by diplomatic means, but that their plan failed because of Spanish inability to reform the island and end the devestating guerilla warfare.
Empire
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Author : Henry Kamen
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2004-02-17
Empire written by Henry Kamen and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-17 with History categories.
From the late-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, Spain was the most extensive empire the world had seen, stretching from Naples and the Netherlands to the Philippines. This provocative work of history attributes Spain's rise to power to the collaboration of international business interests, including Italian financiers, German technicians, and Dutch traders. At the height of its power, the Spanish Empire was a global enterprise in which non-Spaniards -- Portuguese, Basque, Aztec, Genoese, Chinese, Flemish, West African, Incan, and Neapolitan -- played an essential role. Challenging, persuasive, and unique in its thesis, Henry Kamen's Empire explores Spain's complex impact on world history with admirable clarity and intelligence.
Doomed Road Of Empire
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Author : Hodding Carter
language : en
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Release Date : 1963
Doomed Road Of Empire written by Hodding Carter and has been published by McGraw-Hill Companies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with History categories.
History of the road from Mexico through Texas.
The Rise Of The Spanish Empire In The Old World And In The New
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Author : Roger Bigelow Merriman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925
The Rise Of The Spanish Empire In The Old World And In The New written by Roger Bigelow Merriman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925 with Spain categories.
The Rise Of The Spanish Empire In The Old World And The New
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Author : Roger Bigelow Merriman
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
The Rise Of The Spanish Empire In The Old World And The New written by Roger Bigelow Merriman and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
This comprehensive history of the Spanish Empire offers a detailed and engaging account of its rise to prominence in the Old World and the New. Merriman explores the political, economic, and cultural factors that contributed to the expansion of the empire, from the reign of Charles V to the conquest of the Americas. With its vivid storytelling and insightful analysis, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of Spain and the Americas. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Distance And Documents At The Spanish Empire S Periphery
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Author : Sylvia Sellers-García
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2013-12-11
Distance And Documents At The Spanish Empire S Periphery written by Sylvia Sellers-García and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-11 with History categories.
The Spanish Empire is famous for being, at its height, the realm upon which "the sun never set." It stretched from the Philippines to Europe by way of the Americas. And yet we know relatively little about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of governance—paper—over such enormous distances. Moreover, we know even less about how those distances were perceived and understood by people living in the empire. This book takes up these unknowns and proposes that by examining how documents operated in the Spanish empire, we can better understand how the empire was built and, most importantly, how knowledge was created. The author argues that even in such a vast realm, knowledge was built locally by people who existed at the peripheries of empire. Organized along routes and centralized into local nodes, peripheral knowledge accumulated in regional centers before moving on to the heart of the empire in Spain. The study takes the Kingdom of Guatemala as its departure point and examines the related aspects of documents and distance in three sections: part one looks at document genre, and how the creation of documents was shaped by distance; part two looks at the movement of documents and the workings of the mail system; part three looks at document storage and how archives played an essential part in the flow of paper.
Spanish Seaborne Empire
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Author : John Horace Parry
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2012-09-05
Spanish Seaborne Empire written by John Horace Parry and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-05 with History categories.
The Spanish empire in America was the first of the great seaborne empires of western Europe; it was for long the richest and the most formidable, the focus of envy, fear, and hatred. Its haphazard beginning dates from 1492; it was to last more than three hundred years before breaking up in the early nineteenth century in civil wars between rival generals and "liberators." Parry presents a broad picture of the conquests of Cortès and Pizarro and of the economic and social consequences in Spain of the effort to maintain control of vast holdings. He probes the complex administration of the empire, its economy, social structure, the influence of the Church, the destruction of the Indian cultures and the effect of their decline on Spanish policy. As we approach the quincentenary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas, Parry provides the historical basis for a new consideration of the former Spanish colonies of Latin America and the transformation of pre-Columbian cultures to colonial states.
Apogee Of Empire
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Author : Stanley J. Stein
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2004-12-01
Apogee Of Empire written by Stanley J. Stein and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-01 with History categories.
Once Europe's supreme maritime power, Spain by the mid-eighteenth century was facing fierce competition from England and France. England, in particular, had successfully mustered the financial resources necessary to confront its Atlantic rivals by mobilizing both aristocracy and merchant bourgeoisie in support of its imperial ambitions. Spain, meanwhile, remained overly dependent on the profits of its New World silver mines to finance both metropolitan and colonial imperatives, and England's naval superiority constantly threatened the vital flow of specie. When Charles III ascended the Spanish throne in 1759, then, after a quarter-century as ruler of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Spain and its colonial empire were seriously imperiled. Two hundred years of Hapsburg rule, followed by a half-century of ineffectual Bourbon "reforms," had done little to modernize Spain's increasingly antiquated political, social, economic, and intellectual institutions. Charles III, recognizing the pressing need to renovate these institutions, set his Italian staff—notably the Marqués de Esquilache, who became Secretary of the Consejo de Hacienda (the Exchequer)—to this formidable task. In Apogee of Empire, Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein trace the attempt, initially under Esquilache's direction, to reform the Spanish establishment and, later, to modify and modernize the relationship between the metropole and its colonies. Within Spain, Charles and his architects of reform had to be mindful of determining what adjustments could be made that would help Spain confront its enemies without also radically altering the Hapsburg inheritance. As described in impressive detail by the authors, the bitter, seven-year conflict that ensued between reformers and traditionalists ended in a coup in 1766 that forced Charles to send Esquilache back to Italy. After this setback at home, Charles still hoped to effect constructive change in Spain's imperial system, primarily through the incremental implementation of a policy of comercio libre (free-trade). These reforms, made half-heartedly at best, failed as well, and by 1789 Spain would find itself ill prepared for the coming decades of upheaval in Europe and America. An in-depth study of incremental response by an old imperial order to challenges at home and abroad, Apogee of Empire is also a sweeping account of the personalities, places, and policies that helped to shape the modern Atlantic world.